Luke 12 - "Here Comes the Judge!"
Warnings and Encouragements The crowd continued to crowd in around Jesus. The text says, " many thousands ". He took a moment to instruct his disciples saying, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees." What does this mean? Yeast never has a positive connotation in the bible. Though it was was not very sizeable and fairly hidden, it could make its way through the whole dough and cause the bread to swell and create a great mass. Kind of like gossip could start out with a seemingly innocent comment, but can stir up quite a big quarrel and bring dissension to the body of Christ. The Pharisees' teaching was like that. Though it wasn't obvious how harmful it was, it created a legalism that only put heavy burdens on people's backs. On top of that the Pharisees were secretly very hypocritical. In some of the ways only God would haven seen it. Eventually the legalism of the Pharisees and teachers of the law created a guilt and shame ridden environment devoid of